CLINE


Meaning of CLINE in English

/ klaɪn; NAmE / noun

a series of similar items in which each is almost the same as the ones next to it, but the last is very different from the first

SYN continuum

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WORD ORIGIN

1930s: from Greek klinein to slope.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.